living work, work, action, Henry…
The fact that living work is reduced to almost nothing means that everything that humans once did can now be done by robots. But, the robot does not do anything, it is only the trigger and release of a mechanism. The only real action - the action that exists in the feeling that one acts and that is coextensive with this feeling - is the act of pushing the control button. From the beginning of the industrial era and as one effect of the gradual replacement of the “force of work” by natural energies, it was possible to anticipate the reduction of the activities of workers to the work of oversight. This signifies an atrophy of almost all of the subjective potentialities of the living individual and thus a malaise and growing dissatisfaction… [Henry Barbarism 51]
